| Secondary Performers | Sound Intermedia - sound projection
100 metronomes |
| Orchestra or Band | London Sinfonietta,
London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble |
| Set List | 'Poème Symphonique', Ligeti,
'Sequenza', Berio,
'Phlegra', Xenakis,
'Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco', J Harvey,
'De snelheid', L Andriessen,
'4' 33 ', Cage,
'Live Remix', M Herbert |
| Performance Notes | Tonights pocket history of post-war music, reflecting Radio 3s Fifty Modern Classics, opens with Ligetis playful Poème for 100 ticking metronomes. In Berios solo trombone extravaganza the player employs many extended techniques and at one point turns to the audience to ask, Why? Xenakis makes lively play out of rigorous patternings and Cage whose centenary we mark this year removes the idea of a sound source altogether.
Before that notorious provocation theres Jonathan Harveys haunting electronic amalgam of a Winchester Cathedral bell and the voice of his boy chorister son, and Louis Andriessens thrilling, hard-Minimalist musical clock.
There was no interval.
Byron Fulcher was dressed as a clown. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/102),
Handbills (RAHE/6/2012/39, 46),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24) |